How to Implement AppNexus ads in Drupal 8

One of our clients requested to integrate AppNexus ads with their Drupal 8 site. The requirements were very simple:

• Ability to display ads as blocks.
• Ad blocks should be configurable: tagId, Sizes. And pass those variables via apntag.defineTag().
• Ability to pass global page options via apntag.setPageOpts().

Since there wasn't any module that would support this I decided to create a module that will be very easy to use and at the same time will be extendable and useful in other projects.

The module comes with a simple PHP class that helps to generate pageOpts from hook_page_attachments(). You may create your own class using that class as an example.

use Drupal\appnexus\PageOpts;

/**
 * Implements hook_page_attachments().
 */
function mymodule_page_attachments(array &$page) {
  $page_opts = (new PageOpts())
    ->setKeywordQuotes()
    ->setMember('YOUR_MEMBER_ID')
    ->setKeyword('var1', 'value')
    ->setKeyword('var2', ['val1', 'val2'])
    ->setKeyword('var3', 1234);
  if ($opts = $page_opts->build()) {
    $page['#attached']['drupalSettings']['appnexus']['opts'] = json_encode($opts);
  }
}

Please make sure you specify Member ID in order to properly pass all the parameters.

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